About

CARLO ANTONIO VILLANUEVA (he/him, b. 1986) is a Filipino American performer, choreographer, scholar, and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His contemporary dance work is driven by the egalitarian spirit of Judson-era postmodern dance, toward ever-deepening questions about training, aesthetic, embodiment, and belonging in the Information Age. Carlo currently focuses his attention on choreographic process, studio practices, performance coaching, and improvisation. This performance season, he continues international touring with choreographer Faye Driscoll’s Weathering. Carlo is a 2024-2026 OMNIVERS Artist with Red Eye Theater, a 2025 Dance Research Fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and a grant recipient of the inaugural 2025 Bridge Fund for Dance from the City of Minneapolis. Carlo is at home on Lenapehoking and Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang.

past/cv tl;dr

work has appeared at (or with):
AUNTS, Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Bethany Arts Community, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Place, freeskewl, Gibney Center, The Invisible Dog, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Knockdown Center, Movement Research, Recess, Red Eye Theater, Rutgers University, Sentry Theater, The Southern Theater, NYU Tisch Dance, Walker Art Center

has worked with:
Abby Zbikowski, Ash Yergens, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Bill T. Jones & Janet Wong, Bluemouth Inc., Brit Falcon, Christina Robson, Christopher Williams, David Dorfman & Dan Froot, David Parker, Doug Elkins, Elena Hollenhorst, Emma Griffin, Faye Driscoll, Hayden Katz, Heidi Latsky, Helen Simoneau, Jay T. Jenkins, John Evans, John Zullo, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Julia Ritter, Julie Bour, Karl Lowe, Kate Ladenheim, Keely Garfield, Kendell Geers, Kyle Georgina Marsh, Kyle Marshall, Manuel Vignoulle, Marie Alonzo Snyder, Marielis Garcia, Meagan Woods, Miriam Gabriel, Molly Galbraith, Moriah Evans, Morgan Refakis, Motasem Siam, My Barbarian, Myssi Robinson, Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett, Neil Greenberg, Netta Yerushalmy, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Parijat Desai, Pavel Zuštiak, Raegan Wood, Randy James, Raja Feather Kelly, Robert Foerster, Sarah Lifson, Scott Chandler, Smadar Goshen, Stephen Petronio, Tariq D. O’Meally, Tristan Koepke, Walter Dundervill

teaching:
Assistant Professor of Dance at University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Authorized to teach Cunningham Technique. In past: Arizona State University, College of the Holy Cross, George Mason University, LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, NYC Department of Education, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Stony Brook University, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at University of Maryland, Yale University, UCLA

education of note:
MFA, University of Maryland; BFA, Rutgers University; many Cunningham workshops; a few Countertechnique OBOC intensives; a few Flying Low workshops; a year at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance; several years of drum and bugle corps

This page was last updated on 2 June 2025.
PHOTO:  Maria Baranova